NEWSWEEK: Media Lead Sheet/January 14, 2008 Issue (On Newsstands Monday, January 7).

NEWSWEEK: Media Lead Sheet/January 14, 2008 Issue (On Newsstands Monday, January 7).

COVER: "'OUR TIME FOR CHANGE HAS COME'" (p. 30). Obama's victory in Iowa has made not only news but also history. "This is the campaign I always wanted to run. If it doesn't work, it's not because of the organization we built or the respectful tone that we set," Obama tells Newsweek. Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe and Newsweek's political team report that Obama's high-minded themes of hope and change-and not getting your hands dirty-can come off as earnest, even naïve in the world of hardball presidential politics. But Obama is also a streetwise Chicago politician who put together a campaign machine formidable enough to take on the Clintons and win. But for a more direct, unvarnished approach to politics, his wife Michelle has thrown herself into the cause and the competition. Where Obama emphasizes hope and self-belief in his stump speech, Michelle Obama throws down a challenge to voters to step up.

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FACING FACTS: "An Obama-Carter Reality Check" (p. 35). Contributing Editor Ellis Cose writes that Barack Obama's win in Iowa, "is a moment similar to where the country was in 1976, when another largely untested idealist won Iowa's Democratic Caucus ... It is quite possible that Obama can succeed where (President Jimmy) Carter failed, but not without helping America to embrace the fact that changing is a lot harder than talking about it; and that being an agent of change ultimately means shaking up things for many people who are quite comfortable with the status quo," Cose writes.

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POLITICS: "'A Measure of Our Progress'" (p. 36). Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe talks with Sen. Obama a day after the Iowa caucus, about what his victory in an overwhelmingly white state says about America today. "It means that America is hungry for change... You know, when the American people get it in their minds that they have the power to change things, it's very hard to stop them," Obama says.

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"The Pilot vs. The Preacher" (p. 39). Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas and White House Correspondent Holly Bailey report that John McCain and Mike Huckabee have been exceedingly polite to each other, aiming their scorn at Mitt Romney. Openly praising each other while slyly knifing a mutual foe can work for a while. But if Romney goes down in New Hampshire and McCain and Huckabee roar into South Carolina as the two front runners the love fest between them could be long over, Newsweek reports. With Senior Writer Suzanne Smalley, Correspondent Sarah Elkins and Washington Correspondent Steve Tuttle.

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LIVING POLITICS: "The Huckabee Problem" (p. 42). Senior Political Correspondent Howard Fineman writes that, " ... in Washington and the savvier precincts of elsewhere (Nashville, for example), Republicans and their secular conservatives allies are distraught at the thought of Huckabee as the GOP's 2008 presidential nominee."

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BETWEEN THE LINES: "How Tomorrow Became Yesterday" (p. 44). Senior Editor and Columnist Jonathan Alter writes that, "Iowa Nice" is over. "The sweet culture of the cornfields that made Hillary's weeklong attacks on Obama in late November one of the dumbest political strategies of recent years is giving way to states with a more bare-knuckle tradition. The question is how rough the Clintons and their wide circle of political operatives will get," Alter writes.

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THE MONEY CULTURE: "Why We Can't Stop $100 Oil" (p. 23). Senior Editor Daniel Gross writes a hundred factors helped push the price of a barrel of oil to $100. "But it's safe to say that oil's breaching three figures last week was explicitly not due to the venality of Exxon Mobil's bosses, or to our inexplicable hesitancy to drill for methane in the Grand Canyon, or to the lack of subsidies for schemes to process bacon fat into diesel. In fact, it's becoming evident that it's not about anything Americans do, or don't do."

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PAKISTAN: "Al Qaeda's Newest Triggerman" (p. 46). Special Correspondent Sami Yousafzai and South Asia Bureau Chief Ron Moreau profile Baitullah Mehsud-a Pakistani man who is being blamed for most of the recent suicide bombings in Pakistan and Benazir Bhutto's assassination-the newest Enemy No. 1 in the War on Terror, who has transformed his clan's mountainous badlands in the northwest corner of Pakistan into a safe haven for Al Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban and outlawed Pakistani jihadists.

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IRAQ: "'The Reality Is Very Hard'" (p. 48). Baghdad Bureau Chief Babak Dehghanpisheh and Baghdad Correspondent Larry Kaplow interview Gen. David Patraeus, who has led the most dramatic turnaround in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. Patraeus is the first to admit it owes much to decisions taken by Sunni insurgents and Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militia to suspend attacks. Patraeus also discusses wrestling with the idea of talking to people who had attacked and maybe even killed Americans.

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REAL ESTATE: "With Lust in our Hearths" (p. 53). In an excerpt from National Correspondent Daniel McGinn's book "House Lust: America's Obsession With Our Homes," McGinn writes that our fascination with homes continues even as housing values have fallen. During the heyday of the boom, "many of us spent far too much time talking about, valuing, shopping for, refinancing or just plain ogling houses. It's a set of behaviors I call House Lust. Even in the currently gloomy times, there's ample evidence that much of this obsession remains intact," McGinn says.

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PROJECT GREEN: "The Baby Bottle Blues"(p. 53). General Editor Anna Kuchment reports on changes in the marketplace for baby products because of the concerns of parents about the safety of plastics. This month, Handi-Craft Company, which manufactures Dr. Brown's bottles, is rolling out its first bottles made of glass.

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TELEVISION: "Good Mourning, Baltimore"(p. 54). Senior Editor Devin Gordon previews the fifth and final season of HBO's critically acclaimed "The Wire"- calling it the last chance to catch what may be TV's best drama ever. "I think 'The Wire' is going into the archive as an artifact of where we were as a country when we fell on our a-- and became a second-rate society," creator David Simon tells Newsweek.

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CULTURE: "Holy Hot Flash, Batman!"(p. 59). Assistant Editor Jennie Yabroff reports that women are finally breaking into the boys' comics club. With the release of this month's "Wonder Woman" No. 14, the superhero gets her first permanent, ongoing female scribe, Gail Simone, just as alternative and foreign comics by women are gaining visibility.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/84531

TIP SHEET: "When It's Quitting Time" (p. 60). Contributing Editor Linda Stern reports on more and more couples who are leaving jobs mid-career and offers some guidance on the best ways to make the transition to a smaller, perhaps sweeter life.

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PRNewswire -- Jan. 6

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